Wild Blue Yonder

An Out-of-Work Gal Considers Her Opportunities

About Me

What began here as an online journal chronicling my progress as I pursued a variety of financial goals has morphed into a blog devoted to the concerns and challenges of the unemployed.

A communicator by profession, I cannot sit on my hands, even while temporarily out of work. What better subject to delve into than one I am personally experiencing, along with 15.4 million other Americans?

Personal finance issues and strategies for stretching a dollar will surely top the list, but I also plan to adopt a more holistic approach by taking on any aspect of the jobless experience that I think will be of interest to readers.

As always, I welcome your thoughts and feedback.

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I'm thrilled that it's exactly mid-month and I've wasted no drops of my precious heating oil. I'll be patting myself on the back sometime in January when I squeeze an extra week out of my tank before the next fill-up.

Still, the really hard part is coming soon, here in the Northeast. Tomorrow, temps will begin to drop and this weekend I believe we're only expecting highs in the 50s. I can deal with indoor temps of 55 degrees, but not much cooler, during the day, anyway.

So the challenge is rapidly becoming, well, a real challenge! If you crank up the heat, please remember to post a reply on this post because I may otherwise miss it if you post it to your own blog during the week.

7 Responses to “Be a Heat Miser!”

Take me off the list! I would love to compete but we run our air conditioning everyday...we don't ever use heat - but air is just as bad. I am spending lots of $$ on energy and dont deserve to be on the list.

Ooh, time to really test these new windows out this weekend? Can you believe we still haven't taken the A/Cs out of the windows? I'd like to do that this weekend though. Well, we'll be working on the third floor all weekend - HOPEFULLY putting down the laminate! We'll work up a sweat and have the windows wide open. Heat? No way!

I'm Nance, but I'm from Northern Colorado, up by the Wyoming border, not Northern California.
I used my wood burning stove for five days, and then we had a hard freeze for three nights in a row, and I caved!
I turned on the heat. Good luck to everyone else.